NEWSLETTER ISSUE #73 - October 2026

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IBM Bob ACP in Quarkus: A Local Control Plane, Not a Shared Chat App

By Markus Eisele

Permission futures, workspace bounds, and loopback binding show why this client stays on one machine until you add auth, quotas, and audit.

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JobRunr & JobRunr Pro v9: See Inside Every Background Job

By The JobRunr Team

JobRunr v9 draws every attempt and every durable step of a job on a chart. JobRunr Pro v9 adds Job Analytics to the dashboard, can pause and resume a batch halfway and starts jobs within milliseconds on Postgres, without multicast.

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The quarkus.io site is now built with Quarkus Roq

By Holly Cummins

Quarkus migrated quarkus.io from Jekyll to Quarkus Roq by converting 40,000 files, delivering faster builds, quicker page loads, and simplified Java-based local development.

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Build AWT and Swing desktop applications with Quarkus Desktop

By Fouad Almalki

Quarkus Desktop brings AWT and Swing applications to Quarkus, in JVM mode and as native executables on Windows, Linux, and macOS.

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Quarkus Goblin: Learn Chaos Engineering on One REST Call

By Markus Eisele

Build a quote API that calls inventory, inject latency and HTTP 503s, and watch timeout, retry, and fallback take over.

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Enterprise support options for Quarkus

The Quarkus community just got stronger: alongside the long‑standing Red Hat Build of Quarkus, IBM has announced the IBM Enterprise Build of Quarkus. Organizations now have a choice between two enterprise distributions built on the same community core — a clear sign of the project's growth and maturity.

Get Red Hat Build of Quarkus 3.27, a downstream enterprise-supported version of Quarkus. Read the Red Hat Build of Quarkus 3.27 documentation.

Check out IBM Enterprise Build of Quarkus 3.27 for cloud-native and AI-infused applications. Read the IBM Build of Quarkus 3.27 documentation.

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Upcoming Events with Quarkus

IBM TechXchange

Date: October 26-29, 2026
Location: Atlanta, GA USA
Event Type: In Person

The hands-on conference where developers and technologists build real-world skills in AI, cloud and emerging tech.

ArgoCon NA

Date: November 9, 2026
Location: Salt Lake City, UT USA
Event Type: In Person

ArgoCon is designed to foster collaboration, discussion, and knowledge sharing on the Argo Project, which consists of four projects - Argo CD, Argo Workflows, Argo Rollouts and Argo Events.

KubeCon NA

Date: November 9-12, 2026
Location: Salt Lake City, UT USA
Event Type: In Person

CNCF’s flagship conference brings together the open source communities advancing cloud native computing and the infrastructure behind modern AI systems.

Agentic Engineering Days Zurich

Date: November 20, 2026
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Event Type: In Person

Switzerland's AI Coding & Agents conference — 20 November 2026, Marriott Hotel Zurich. Agentic AI - build it & let it build.

Voxxed Days Thessaloniki

Date: November 20-21, 2026
Location: Thessaloniki, Greece
Event Type: In Person

Voxxed Days Thessaloniki brings together software developers to discuss the most important topics in our sector with expert speakers and fellow developers.

Cloud Native AI Summit - Paris

Date: December 2-3, 2026
Location: Paris, France
Event Type: In Person

Cloud Native AI Summit lands in Europe. Two days of pragmatic, practitioner-led content covering Kubernetes, observability, security, AI-on-K8s, and platform engineering — with talks from speakers shaping the cloud native landscape across the continent and beyond.

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